My soul thirsteth for the living God-— Psalm 42:2
The age old question is, “What is the chief end of man?”. The answer is,”To glorify God and to enjoy Him forever”. However, it is at this very point that we find man’s greatest failure. Sadly the first thing is the last thing that most people care about. They have 1001 things that interest them more than this. They spend their lives pursuing pleasures rather than pleasing God. They seek to gratify the flesh rather than glorify God. They waste their lives majoring on minors. How wicked is that? Is it not horrible that that they long for their lusts more than love the Lord? Is it not terrible that they worship and enjoy the creature more than the Creator?
Such people worship the evil trinity — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, rather than the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Thomas Watson wrote: Lust is an inordinate desire or impulse, provoking the soul to that which is evil. Lust, like a feverish heat, puts the soul into a flame. Aristotle calls sensual lusts, brutish,because, when any lust is violent—reason and conscience cannot be heard. These lusts besot and brutalize the man.
How many make it their chief end, not to enjoy God—but to enjoy their lusts! Lust first bewitches with pleasure—and then comes the fatal dart! This should be a flaming sword to stop men in the way of their carnal delights—Who, for a drop of pleasure, would drink a sea of wrath?
Now you know why we call it an “Upside-down-world”. Man gives the least attention to the thing of greatest importance. He fails at that which is first! Think about it!
